Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The knowledge of all things is possible

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.